Rumors & Notes: 8/30 – 8/31/14

TOP STORIES

• CofC has 2 finalists for the next head basketball coach (News 2).
• No. 9 South Carolina, No. 16 Clemson lose openers (ABC News 4).
• 1 pedestrian killed, another seriously injured in crash on Folly Beach (ABC News 4).
• DOJ probe requested as forensics expert Werner Spitz sees Curnell death as accident (Post & Courier).

• Fire closes East Bay Street Saturday afternoon (Post & Courier).

• On this Date in Charleston History: The Great Earthquake of 1886 (HCS).

LABOR DAY

• SCDNR offering Labor Day boat safety inspections (ABC News 4).
• Labor Day weekend a time to shine for IOP businesses, police (ABC News 4).

FOOD

• Hogs For The Cause Comes to Charleston this October (HCS).
• Shrimp and Grits Festival Photo Gallery (HCS).

POLITICS

• Politicians come to Chapin for Labor Day parade (News 2).

• Props To AG’s Child Porn Task Force: Alan Wilson’s Office Protecting SC Children From Predators (FITS News).

• Six years on, South Carolina cash flow still hurting (The Digitel).

• The Media Wants Thomas Ravenel’s Campaign To Be Fake (FITS News).

• Voting squabble pits Republican against Republican (Post & Courier).

• Lyman: More Local Scandal (FITS News).

SPORTS

• Cleveland signs Connor Shaw to practice squad (Go Gamecocks).
• Gamecock loss means Rick Perry keeps trophy + SC governor candidates trade barbs (The State).
• Coastal Carolina posts 31-16 win over The Citadel (ABC News 4).
• Gamecocks and Tigers still can turn season around (The State).
• Accentuate the positive, on and off the field (Post & Courier).

• 5-0 RiverDogs shutout clinches winning season (ABC News 4)
• Watersports week joins restaurant, beer weeks for post-Labor Day tourism blitz (Post & Courier).
• Spurrier says RB Davis doubtful for East Carolina (ABC News 4).

• Carolina Panthers face calmer, new-look Bucs (The State).

• State report: College of Charleston men’s soccer falls to Seattle, 2-0 (Post & Courier).
• Gamecocks in the NFL: Quarles, Patrick, Legree secure spots (Go Gamecocks).

ENTERTAINMENT

• ‘Deluge’ gets visitors soaked for a good cause (Live 5 News).
  • Photo Gallery (Facebook).

MISC

• Numerous reports of bed bugs at popular Charleston hotel (News 2).
• To solve Ariel Morgan’s shooting death, family and authorities appeal to ‘somebody somewhere’ (Post & Courier).
• French citizens honored during WWII anniversary ceremony at Patriots Point (News 2).
• More seniors taking classes at College of Charleston (Post & Courier).
• Fewer S.C. convicts returning to prison, study finds (Post & Courier).
• Reports of diversity’s death at C of C were greatly exaggerated (Post & Courier).
• Nickeled and dimed; For every $27 in cash fares, CARTA will spend $1 to count and deposit the money (Post & Courier).
• Startup Weekend gives the Silicon Harbor 54 hours to develop the next big idea (Charleston City Paper).
• MUSC researchers part of breakthrough drug for heart failure (Post & Courier).
• Grapevine: Boeing 787 carbon fiber scraps get repurposed for the gridiron (Post & Courier).
• Man arrested after fatal hit-and-run accident in Berkeley County (Live 5 News).
• Charleston will get first of two new Coast Guard cutters this fall (Post & Courier).

• Son charged in father’s stabbing death in Mullins (ABC News 4).
• Bond set for woman involved in fatal DUI crash (Live 5 News).
• Johns Island man charged in roommate’s stabbing (ABC News 4).

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